Reddit reviews Sawyer Products SP105 MINI Water Filtration System, Single, Black

I went through a few of your videos and checked out the subjects of each of them. As a recommendation, if you're putting videos together for broke ass preppers, it would probably be useful to start off with some real basics. Like for example, the cheap stove tops and fuel videos are interesting, but they don't mean much if you don't have anything to cook. So other than Ramen, people new to prepping could probably benefit from a guide on:

• What foods to look for inexpensively and maybe where to look for them. Talk real prices paid and $/Calorie. Talk variations on shelf life. Things of that nature.
  
  
• How to store and rotate those foods. Also how long they can expect them to last.
  
  
• How to get cheap protein.
  
  
• Maybe different ways to prepare these foods. A video series on preparing your preps, maybe using some of the methods you already shown in your videos, would be pretty cool and not something I see a lot of.
  
  
• Methods of building up food stores over time on a budget. e.g. Buy one to eat and one to store. Then two to store and eat the other one you bought the first time. Or couponing. Or where to hunt for deals. Whatever you can think of.
  
  
• It could be cool to include the comparison of expenses invested into say... a pizza vs a quantity of food that you can find for the same/similar amount. Hell, cook up a whole bag of white rice and just show the quantity of food that provides in comparison next to a pizza, or do the rice and add other ingredients with what's left of the budget to make a ton of tasty looking food. I'd watch something like that for sure.
  
  Etc.
  
  Getting people to get just a month's worth of food built up in their pantry would be an amazingly useful feat, even if it had to occur over time. Especially for minimum wage folks who have bills to pay, there will be times that they have emergencies that they need cash for, and having a stocked pantry means that they can be prepped for redirecting those funds.
  
  Similar for water. Your video was interesting to watch, but if you're asking someone to invest in water purification tablets, then it's just as reasonable to ask them to snag a Sawyer Water Filter for $20. It might have made that stream water you were drinking a little more palatable. There are other cheap tricks as well to clear that up a bit, like using coffee filters to pre-filter the water which will extend your filter's life and get a lot of little things out a bit better than a hanky. It might be good to research tips and tricks like that and include them in a new water video. And then there's also grabbing some flats of bottled water to rotate through at the house. You can easily get a week's worth of water in bottles pretty inexpensively at the right places, and having good clean drinking water on hand for a minor emergency is better than having to filter run off stream water.
  
  The video's on MRE's and gadgets and do-dads are cool and add good flavor to your channel, but imo... the biggest parts of prepping on a budget are the fundamentals, and those seem to be missing from your library at the moment. I'd be more likely to recommend it for others to view if you did a really good job covering those.

https://www.amazon.ca/Sawyer-Products-SP105-Filtration-System/dp/B00TOX6UM6

We use these for back country camping and they work very well. $30 for treated drinkable water.

That's where the "bathtub of water" comes in to play. Plus, if an area doesn't have water for weeks, it's going to be an enormous disaster area and i would expect the feds will be there for support.

But i guess as a "survival" backup, I'd get one of these that'll get you 100K gallons of drinking water from a river/lake: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TOX6UM6/

Thanks for the input, sorry if it is a bit unclear, I've edited it without the weight of the water.

Tarp is gone, along with 10m of para cord for putting it up with.

Picked up a new fleece with saves 300grams today (had No idea that it would save that much) and the trainers I'm replacing as well, definitely getting lighter one and I'll probably replace most the the clothes as well with lighter weight trekking ones.

This is the Eco straw which seems like it will do the job, apologises if Eco Straw was unclear.

The sponge / soap / cloth is all because of lessons from my last trip where we had to throw away a meal or two because we didn't properly clean our dishes so everything tasted soapy. The wire mess and tent pegs look something like this, I'm looking for a different wire mess than what I've got at the moment to bring down the weight some more, but the whole thing is on the ditch list if it isn't very useful.

The solar charger is also a battery bank, and I may ditch one of the camera lenses to save 600grams (fuck that thing is heavy)


Oh and a pot has gone as well.

I've never heard of this thing. It has 3 different sizes listed for pore size in the product description. First is says: With the first layer of 0.2~0.01 Hollow Fiber UF Membrane, which means it is has 0.2 micron holes as well, but then later it says Filter to an amazing 0.1 microns. That being said, even the 0.2 size is good enough for bacteria and parasites.

I would spend a couple bucks and go with a Sawyer. Super light and the folks at ultralight and appalachian trail swear by them.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00TOX6UM6/ref=mp_s_a_1_1/145-0298543-3420436?ie=UTF8&qid=1504365684&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=sawyer%2Bmini&dpPl=1&dpID=51ccU8hhfNL&ref=plSrch&th=1&psc=1.

They are fabulous for camping! Not as great for chemical spills, but pretty handy if you can't boil or are out of iodine tablets and bleach.

>I've only hiked to the base of subdome but I'm going to the top in 1 week.

I would suggest carrying a small water filter (this one is everywhere and cheap), and you can refresh off the Merced river and Sunrise Creek. Around here is probably your last stop for water, roughly 6 mile round trip from the top. Otherwise your last stop is the water fountains, which is a 12 mile round trip. You'll be get away with way less weight going up the Mist Trail and conserve your strength for the main event.

And you already know this if you've seen the cable queues from subdome, but get there early as you can manage. You'll have much better weather conditions and avoid the queue of tourists making the cables far more dangerous and far more aggravating. Personally I wouldn't depart later than 4 AM.

I got up there at 7:00, chilled and had breakfast and coffee for half an hour while watching the sunrise from subdome. On my way up, I actually ran into a couple people who were on their way down probably around 6:30. By the time I was on my way down around maybe 9:30, crowds were starting to gather and if I showed up later than 10 I'd probably skip the cables entirely (but that's only because I REALLY hate crowds).